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EU expands North Korea sanctions

EU states have added nine people and four entities, including the state-owned Foreign Trade Bank, to their North Korea blacklist after Pyongyang's latest missile test. The bloc has imposed asset freezes and travel bans on 103 people and 57 entities so far. The latest listing comes in response to a UN resolution last week, and as the US and North Korea exchange hostile rhetoric over Pyongyang's atomic weapons programme.